Racing NSW – Compulsory Equine Welfare Seminar for licenced trainers

Cardiac arrhythmias, Exercise Associated Sudden Death &
Exercise Induced Pulmonary Haemorrhage in Thoroughbred racehorses
Dr Laura Nath

Racing NSW continues its program of encouraging best practice Equine Welfare care through education and knowledge.
*All Trainers are required to attend in person an Equine Welfare seminar to qualify for a 2025/26 issue of licence.

Dr Laura Nath will present a seminar to all licensed Trainers addressing cardiac arrhythmias, exercise associated sudden death and EIPH (bleeders) in racehorses. The talk will cover why this occurs in racehorses, risk factors,and how you can modify training and care of horses to reduce the prevalence in your stable.

Dr Laura Nath
Specialist in Equine Medicine – BVSc, MVSc, CertEM, FANZCVS

Laura is a registered specialist in Equine Medicine. She graduated with honours from the University of Sydney in 2003. Early in her career Laura worked in first opinion equine practice and reproduction and stud medicine in Australia and the UK and attained a certificate in Stud Medicine from the Royal Veterinary College in the UK in 2008. Laura completed her specialist training in equine medicine through a residency at the University of Melbourne and gained fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in Equine Medicine in 2010.

During her residency training Laura completed a Masters degree investigating cardiac troponin in horses. She has recently completed a PhD through the University of Adelaide investigating exercise associated arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death in Thoroughbreds.

Laura has given research presentations and lectures within Australia, UK, USA and Canada on topics such as cardiology, atrial fibrillation, interpretation of heart murmurs, gastric ulceration and gastroduodenoscopy, management of coughing horses, diagnosis of lower respiratory disease, pleuropneumonia, weight loss, foal medicine, reproductive efficiency, equine metabolic syndrome and neurological examination. She has contributed several chapters to textbooks and published research on these topics.

Laura has extensive experience in cardiology and respiratory medicine and intensive care.

She also has interests in sports medicine, neonatal care of foals, neurology, dermatology, gastrointestinal disease; weight loss, colic, diarrhoea and gastric ulceration and endocrine disorders such as PPID (also known as Cushing’s disease).

The seminars and requirement to attend have been arranged in consultation with the NSW Trainers Association, who actively support the continued improvement of equine welfare management, commenting ; “The further education of trainers on best practice when it comes to equine welfare is a positive for the industry”.

Attendance is compulsory to enable a 2025/26 issue of licence.